Imperial art as Christian art, Christian art as imperial art
Subtitle: expression and meaning in art and architecture from Constantine to Justinian
Series: Acta ad archaeologiam et artium historiam pertinentia / Institutum Romanum Norvegiae -- 15=new ser., 1; Acta ad archaeologiam et artium historiam pertinentia -- new ser., 1
Publisher: Bardi Editore
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Roma
Language: eng; fre; ita
Number of pages: 336
Subjects: Art, Early Christian -- Rome -- Congresses; Architecture, Early Christian -- Rome -- Congresses; Christian art and symbolism -- Rome -- Congresses; Art and state -- Rome -- Congresses; Art patronage -- Rome -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Notes: Papers presented to the conference, Rome, 1999

Includes bibliographical references

Texts in English, French, and Italian
Table of contents: title: Ceremony and ritual. Architettura come codice di transmissione dell'immagine dell'imperatore, dai Severi all'età constantiniana / Federico Guidobaldi ; Urban space and ritual : Constantinople in late antiquity / Franz Alto Bauer ; Christian emperors and the legacy of imperial art / Hans-Rudolf Meier ; The oratory of the forty martyrs : from imperial ante-vestibule to Christian room of worship / Kirsti Gulowsen ; The ruler image of the fourth century : innovation or tradition / Niels Hannestad ; Constantine, the Lateran, and early church building policy / Olof Brandt ; The church basilica / Dale Kinney ; Imperial connotations in Roman church interiors : the significance and effect of the Lateran Fastigium / Sible de Blaauw; title: Patronage. Imperiale, cristiano, pagano, privato : dal contesto al significato / Beat Brenk ; Emperor and the icon / Thomas F. Matthews ; Anatomy of late Roman art : interaction between public and private, meaning and image, patron and workshop / Laszlo Berczelly ; Eastern or western, that is the question : some notes on the new evidence concerning the eastern origin of the Halberstadt Diptych / Gudrun Bühl; title: Iconography. Cristo e l'imperatore romano : i valori simbolici del nimbo / Agneta Ahlqvist ; Adventus travels north : a note on the iconography of some Scandinavian gold bracteates /Gunilla Akerström-Hougen ; Ducks, dolphins, and portrait medallions : framing the Achilles mosaic at Pedrosa de la Vega / Bente Kiilerich ; Terracotta plaque in the Dumbarton Oaks collection : Judgment scene or Congiarium? / Siri Sande ; Iconography of the sarcophagus in S. Ambrogio : hope for salvation through the world of Christ / Olaf Steen ; Un décor de voûte controversé : l'ornemenatation "sassanide" d'une mosaïque de la Rotonde de Saint-Georges à Thessalonique / Hjalmar Torp ; The absent ruler : reflections on the origin of the Byzantine domed church and its pictorial decoration / Per Jonas Nordhagen